Bold new approach to wind ‘farm’ design may provide efficiency gains

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110713131644.htm
ScienceDaily (2011-07-13) — Conventional wisdom suggests that because we’re approaching the theoretical limit on individual wind turbine efficiency, wind energy is now a mature technology. But researchers have recently revisited some of the fundamental assumptions that guided the wind industry for the past 30 years, and now believe that a new approach to wind farm design — one that places wind turbines close together instead of far apart — may provide significant efficiency gains.